So I just finished leveling ARCANIST to 15 to be a Black Mage...

[Felis]

During 1.0 they changed that and the lore, but not the names, therefore THM became servants of Thal ( or Nald, don't remember ) the avatar of Death and destruction ( while Nald is life ) and became BLM. Conjurer used the more natural elements ( Earth, wind, water ) and healing ( nature=> nice people => healing ) and became WHM.

The class stories at the beginning of 1.0 were the same at the end of 1.0
What changed was the skills and some NPCs who gave you soul stones.

As example, in the first CNJ quest at level 30 you needed to fight against different elementals and you did more damage if you fight with the right element spell. The quests didn't changed after CNJ lost fire, ice and lightning spells.

[Estellios]

Someone had mentioned it and I agree, I'm pretty sure Archer is the class you need because the abilities you get from it actually are intended to help with DPS whereas the Arcanist skills are intended for support. From what I remember of the initial dev talks about it, the intent of the cross-class skills for the jobs was to make sure you have an understanding of the armory system and provide you with skills that will reinforce the intended role of your job. I think the only miss in this regard is Paladin but it barely relies on cross class skills in the first place.

Also please don't heal anybody on BLM if you have a healer in the party. It's pretty terrible and any time you are not nuking things is significant DPS loss which is why you are there in the first place.

[Frisque]

I think they should just change the abbreviation for archer to ACH.

And if we're talking about secondary classes that make no sense , wasn't the secondary for WHM in 1.0 pugilist or something? Lol.

[Estellios]

I think they should just change the abbreviation for archer to ACH.

And if we're talking about secondary classes that make no sense , wasn't the secondary for WHM in 1.0 pugilist or something? Lol.

Gladiator.

It used Gladiator and Pugilist for the self-defense buffs which actually were pretty useful.

[Baneus]

I simply levelled every class to 15 before I went for specific jobs. Problem solved :P